Amplifying meaningful stories and underrepresented voices.

Claire Bangser is a New Orleans based photographer and filmmaker focused on human interest storytelling. Claire's existing body of work, including her New Orleans-based project, NOLAbeings, shifts the focus from making 'pretty pictures' to telling important and moving narratives visually.

I have worked as a full time freelance photographer and short filmmaker since mid 2012. My work - spanning commercial and editorial projects - is centered around telling human stories authentically, compellingly, and with love.

In February 2014, I started the popular New Orleans street portrait project NOLAbeingsand have interviewed well over 1,000 people in New Orleans alone. Since then, my work has been featured by a wide range of media, including National Geographic, The New York Times, TIME, Wired, Glamour, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Amazon's DP Review, Le Parisien Magazine, HuffPost, Vox, Refinery29 and PBS, among others.

I'm a filmmaking instructor for National Geographic Student Expeditions, and have led trips to the Mediterranean (2013), the French and Swiss Alps (2014-2016), Iceland (2016) and New Zealand (2017)!

Get to know me a bit through this video by Amazon's DP Review in which I field test a new camera along the Mississippi Blues Trail: